Introduction:
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Story n.1: Once upon a time, a long ago, when the Romans
were very powerful, there was a little promontory (a kind of peninsula) where
many rich romans used to go on holiday. Most of those rich romans where
a kind of bank-owners and where called (in latin) "Argentari",
so people began to call that promontory "Argentario" because
of the presence of the Argentari.
Story n.2: Ancient stories of sailormen state that when
boats were sailing along the promontory the land seemed to be made of
silver because of the color of its Olive Trees, and yes you guessed,
Argento is the italian word for Silver, so the promontory was named
"Argentario". Actually a leaf of an olive tree
is dark green on the side facing the sun and is silver colored on the
opposite side, so, when the wind moves the leaves, the tree does really
look silver colored.
Argentario
Where does the name Argentario come from?
Well, there are a couple of stories about the origyns (or how ever this word
is spelled!! .. orygins?) of this name ... mmm .... at the moment I remember
only two of them, I wonder if there are others ...
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